𝕮 • Chris Shank
@chrisshank.me

Concepts of Hand and Technology

AI Science Fiction Versus Reality

The Racialization of Print

Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software

They Thought What?
quod.lib.umich.edu
Ted Chiang: Fears of Technology Are Fears of Capitalism

Google’s Most-Hated Announcement Ever

The Noisy Room

How to (Anti) AI Better

Do I belong in tech anymore?
computingwithinlimits.org

Appropriate Measures — Real Life
Appropriate Technology
Folk Tech – tech for life
Tech's right turn : the rise of reactionary politics in Silicon Valley and online

Coalition Politics: Turning the Century

Men in tech #YesAllMen - EMF 2026
Data Feminism for AI
quod.lib.umich.edu

Wired women : gender and new realities in cyberspace
Two of the documents are heavily redacted, like some sort of CIA stuff or the Epstein files. Like, seriously? What is W Social and the EC…
These records show W Social actively lobbying, specifically on age verification, not just hosting accounts. “W Identity and the EU Age Verif…
If I were piggybacking on years of other people’s work without contributing a shred of innovation myself, I’d feel embarrassed rather than…
W Social has a page where they tracked European MPs accounts: europetalking.wsocial.news It's a cool study, but they have an indicator sayin…

Just 18 unverified VIP accounts produce more than half of all W Social content. | W Don't Have Time | Offprint
“European public voices choosing W” —But are they? - aiueo
Tech's right turn : the rise of reactionary politics in Silicon Valley and online

Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design

Cyber-Marx

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

📏 When machines start calling the shots

Information Civics

The hardest working font in Manhattan

The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Goudy Oldstyle in use

Steve Simkins

A corner of the web for builders.

The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity
part of technocracy - a limit to its power - is a structural inability to be emotionally vulnerable
Technocracy References
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
Toward a Critical Technical Practice

Analog Resistance: Why Mechanical Simplicity Matters in an Increasingly Digital Cycling World
gandt.blogs.brynmawr.edu
Burnout in Open Source (by Erlend Sogge Heggen) — Semble

Linux distributions worldwide targeted by the Copy Fail exploit
GitHub Alternatives (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Death of GitHub? (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble

Before GitHub
Cohere + Aleph Alpha — sovereign AI's first $20B deal (by Sensemaker) — Semble

Conflict Systems
Interestingly, as the digital sublime emerged, feminists like Joanna Russ were early on in recognizing this sublime as (male) addiction and…
Feminist Computing (by 𝕮) — Semble

Data Feminism
Ceartas raises $4.5m seed round co-led by The Sidemen

Linq Raises $1.1M to Create Secure Platform for Sharing Intimate Images | Femtech Insider

MintStars
Why this OnlyFans rival is building in Miami after $10 million investment

With $2.7M in Funding, Vylit Unveils a New Era of Allure With Its 18+ Social Media Meets Creator Platform Opening Up Monetization To The Masses

NSFW AI chatbot startup Oh scores £3.7m - UKTN
It was a huge honor to present the opening keynote address at #SIGIR2026 and to talk about the need for IR to resist uncritical adoption of…

Informatics of the Oppressed
May First Movement Technology
bhaskar-mitra.github.io

Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI
JEDI